AuctionRover.com Now Fetches the Newspaper! Adds News Feed to its Content Offerings.RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999-- Utilizing ScreamingMedia Technology to Deliver Online Auction News Bidders and sellers no longer have to go through the tedious process of searching multiple media sources for up-to-the-minute online auction news. Beginning today, AuctionRover.com will fetch the news for them. AuctionRover.com the one-stop feature-rich resource for online auctions has increased its extensive content offerings to include auction-related news feeds from ScreamingMedia, the premier aggregator and distributor of the highest-quality content on the Internet. Using its proprietary "harvesting" and filtering technology, ScreamingMedia will provide AuctionRover.com with updated, online auction news from some of the world's leading sources, including The Associated Press, The New York Times Syndicate, Business Wire, and UPI UPI abbr. United Press International . "Up-to-date news keeps bidders and sellers informed of trends and activities in the auctioning space and enable them to conduct their business wisely," explained Scot Wingo, AuctionRover.com CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder. "This news feed when combined with our free Price Trending Services and our weekly, exclusive articles position AuctionRover.com as the only online resource able to fully educate, inform and entertain the auction community." "AuctionRover is a great showcase for ScreamingMedia's service," said Alan Ellman, founder and President of ScreamingMedia. "AuctionRover's customers need highly niche content auction news updated continuously, and that's exactly what we provide. We're proud to be part of this terrific site." In addition to its online auction content, AuctionRover.com includes a variety of services for bidders and sellers of merchandise. For online bidders, AuctionRover.com features RocketRover(TM) an advanced, proprietary cross-auction search engine. This technology provides a comprehensive, categorized and searchable index of the top online auction sites, including eBay (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : EBAY), Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (NASDAQ: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) and Auction Universe. Auction enthusiasts search close to 850 online auction sites and find anything from antiques to xylophones in record time. Additionally, they can be notified about new items, monitor items of interest, and participate on several different auction sites simultaneously. AuctionRover.com gives sellers the power to post items across several auction sites including larger players like those mentioned above in addition to hosting images and hit counters. These unique advantages ultimately enhance visibility and manageability. About AuctionRover.com Founded in July 1999, AuctionRover.com is the one-stop resource for all online auctioning needs. This powerful new site allows buyers to search for items across auction sites, sellers to host images and counters, and provides innovative, relevant content that will keep bidders and sellers informed and entertained. AuctionRover.com recently closed on a round of funding from Draper Atlantic, the East Coast affiliate of Silicon Valley's Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. . For more information, visit AuctionRover.com at http://www.auctionrover.com . About ScreamingMedia ScreamingMedia is the premier Content Network on the Internet, aggregating relevant, real-time content from a wide array of providers and delivering it to hundreds of clients every day, seamlessly integrating it into the look and feel of their Web sites. Using proprietary "harvesting" and filtering technology, ScreamingMedia streams more than half a million articles monthly to hundreds of clients, including AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Microsoft, Healtheon, How2HQ.com, and Sun Microsystems. These sites use ScreamingMedia to drive traffic and increase the "stickiness" of their sites with continuously updated, customized content from some of the world's leading sources, including The New York Times Syndicate, Red Herring, Rolling Stone, Business Wire, UPI, and M2 Communications. The company is based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and has nearly 100 employees. Its CEO is Jay Chiat, co-founder of Chiat/Day. |
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